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[montauk170]

SKUNKS!!! In my yard at night. I was just having some fun. Thought you guys might like to see them. :)

[David McLeod]

I know it is just the heat but I swear it look like plumes of odor rising from the back end of those stinkers.

[Tommyt]

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[JP]

This is not the appropriate place to post this thread! Should be posted in the skunk removal section.  :-D

Cool pics!


...JP  ;)

[AllenF]

Now mount that camera on your .22  :-D

[montauk170]

I was thinking about it, high power pellet gun or something. I wonder if a skunk should spray as it got hit. I would hate to have to clean up the mess.  :-D

Skunk removal... hahah... JP, your pest control business do those?  :-D Want to see some videos haha
BTW, how does skunk trappers remove them without getting sprayed???  :shock:

[JP]

I've never gotten a call for a skunk in the city. I've only seen them in the country.


...JP

[montauk170]

Thanks for the skunk tips though I don't plan on any "skunk removals"  :-D

[TwoHoneys]

I've never gotten a call for a skunk in the city. I've only seen them in the country.


...JP

I was sitting at sunset on a bench on a quiet street in the center Taos, NM, and a family of 6 skunks visited me. They brushed against my leg. I've never been so surprised in my life.

-Liz

[uglyfrozenfish]

"I wonder if a skunk should spray as it got hit."

Yes it will spray if you shoot it.  I have heard of people who know the right spot to shoot a skunk that results in a quick kill with no spray, but the one time I've had the opportunity it sprayed.  Ended up having to leave the live trap out back for a few weeks till the smell went away.  Wife not happy :-D

BTW, how does skunk trappers remove them without getting sprayed???  :shock:

When I or my grandfather have found a skunk in one of our livetraps we simply walk up calmly with a heavy unwanted blanket in front of us.  Drape the blanket over the trap and carry it wherever you want.  THey will not spray, I think because they don't know there is danger and the blanket makes them feel comfortable :lol:. 

BTW, if you have a skunk problem find a coyote, they love the little stinkers.

Lee

[specialkayme]

 . . . and then you will have a coyote problem . . .

[Intheswamp]

I had a friend who was moving into the area.  He was moving into his mother's old house that had been vacant for several years.  In one room was a pile of some kind of crap, literal crap.  We weren't sure what it was...nice, tidy pile.  He sat a large rat trap up and waited.  One morning he went in and had a dead skunk in the trap...snapped it across it's skull...no stink.  So, if you can make a headshot and instant kill then you might have a chance at an odorless removal...  Best wishes for a steady hand.  :lol:  Ed

[MTWIBadger]

A 20 gauge shotgun with bird shot drops a skunk instantly but their bodies will emit odor for several weeks ( speaking from a vast experience of two kills).

[D Coates]

If you shoot them in the neck or the medulla oblongata (base of the brain, about the size of pencil eraser in a skunk) they won't twitch.  I'm a good shot, but not that good.  If they're traveling a consistant path you can put aspirin in eggs and the problem is solved.  Note, the aspirin will take out other animals so know your target well.  If something else (a pet) gets into it, Vitamin K is the antidote.  Forcing them to drink hydrogen peroxide will cause them to throw up.

The skunks (mother and kit) I had this year have both disappeared, though I had nothing to do with it.  I was 3 days into patterning them, for leaving the bait, when they left the scene on their own accord.

Wholly molly...  I need to get a life.